A increase in the expenditures and risks with the mastery of sequential steps of lithographic technology force even important producers to go for cooperation and to exchange technologies. Some alliances successfully exist for years - for example, IBM for a period of many years was the technological donor of AMD.
As communicates press release published on this week, IBM, Samsung, Globalfoundries and STMicroelectronics declared about the intentions to synchronize preparation for the release of semiconductor microcircuits on 28 nm technology. Companies intend to together develop 28 nm technical process in the versions both for microcircuits with the monolithic base layers and using materials with the high value of dielectric constant and transistors with the metallic lock (HKMG).
Operating times will be used for the production of microcircuits with the lowered energy consumption level, which will find a use in the mobile devices. It is expected that the synchronization within the 28 nm technical process will be completed to the end of the present year. Renesas, Infineon and Toshiba also enter into the composition of technological alliance IBM.